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The Fish Had Fur, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Sapro Legnia - A Parasitic Fish Parasite

Spralegnia is a parasitic infection that can cause fur to form on the skin of infected fish. The infections often begin originally at like, like a wound, or maybe some kind of opening in the skin. But then once they have established a colony within the skin, they can ind of spread out from there. They will from the outer layer, from the skin and te and the scales begin to invade down further into the muscle tissue,. which can eventually kill the fish overtime.

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